The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-17
BREAKFAST-TABIE CHAT.

THE season when the poor umpire and
the Gar can sympathize with each other has
begun.
THE Prince Regent of Bavaria has granted
the medal for art and science to Frau Pauline
Lucca, the distinguished cantatrice.
BISHOP HURST, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. has read the Bible in the language of
every country in which he has held confer
ence
CHICAGO mothers now brighten their naughty
children into obedience with the following warn
ing: IF you are not good the interstare-com-
merce bill will catch you"
e GENERAL JOHN GIBBoN, of the United States
army, is a brother of Cardinal Gibbons The
General dropped the from the family name
for some pc rsonal and unknown reason.
SoMERvILLE Journal: what are the pros.
poets Of home rule nowln a correspondent asks.
Really, my dear fellow EsTan't tell you unless
you let us know when the old lady is going home.
EDITOR: what sort of trash is thisl can't
make head nor tail of it." Author: THAT, sirl
Why, that's a dialect story" Editor livery
humbly:) "Oh. beg your pardon. OF course.
Here's check"
THE New York World pats Wilson Barrett on
the back for .'imparting some new features to
very old play" meaning Hamlet" 1t was Bill
Nye, however who first deplored the absence of
GEN. W. W. AvERILL, who was one of the
most gallant cavalry commanders in the Union
army during the war, has accepted an invitation
to participate in the ceremonies of Confederate
Decoration Day at StauntoL, Va, on the 9th of
June.
SINCE the death of Emory Storrs the best aft
er-dnner speaker in Chicago has been the Rev.
DR.. Mcpherson. He is graduate of Princeton
His postprandial eloquence is brilliantly witty.
with here and there touch of strength which
| adds backbone to his speech.
| THE city of Atlanta is just now deeply inter-
ested in a new evangelist product of the rich
| and loamy soil of Georgia His name is Yatman,
and his allfor-Jesus talks are said to beat any
| thing that was ever ATTEMPTED by his predeces-
| sors. Messrs. Jones and Small, in the way of
| knocking out sin and the devil.
| ONLY twice before has the Bishop of Connect
| cut held the seniority in the Episcopal Honse of
| Bishops. Bishop Seabury was senior bishop
| from 1884 to 1896, and Bishop Brownell from
1852 to 1863. When the present senior bisnop,
Bishop Williams, was consecrated in 1851. there
| were thirty -four bishops older than himself.
| A BOSTON school maam the other day ex-
planned to her pupils that the word vicissitude
| meant change, and then asked a boy to give her
| sentence in which the word was used with that
| meaning. The boy promptly offered the follow
| ing: 'tMe mother sent me to the grocery store
/
dollar BILL
". E. RINGwALr, newspaper man, connected
| with the Washington D. c.. Critic, invites the
newsboys of that city to an enter .anment every
| Tuesday evening He provides various kinds OF
| amusements for them, feeds them WE'LL and
talks to them on cleanliness thrift. obeyIng the
laws and such topics. He is doing much good
with these boys
S. B. CHIrrENDEN. of Brooklyn, who some
years ago gave Yale $4,000 for professorship
and has just presented the university with
not graduate of the institution to which he has
been so liberal He was in his youth. however
a firm friend OF President Porter. and has al
ways been interested in Yale. Mr.. Chittendeu
first won success as merchant IN New Haven.
BURDETTE: A we'll known firm advertises
artistic gas fixtures" We have one of the
peggars down in the cellar. 1t is the artfulest
Indictment with the rest of the boodlers has
always been mystery to the consumer ever
since it began to say: ''Twce two is five. and
three to carry makes eleven Pat down seven
teen" Artistic? It does it with an easy grace
and an honest face that would deceive the very
elect
SOME years ago an eminent English anti
quarian wrote to Bishop Coke, of Buffalo, N. Y,
that ''the Clevelands of America were descended
from William Cleveland, who removed from
York to Hinckley. in Leicestershire, where be
was buried-a very old MANN $780, His sor
Thomas was probably the father of Moses Cleve
land. the emierant who came to Massachusetts
in 1885," The Cleveland arms wore given to Sill
Guy de Cleveland, who commanded the English
shearmen at the battle of Poictiers.
SPEAKING of the old Fitchbure railroad sta
ton at North Cambridge, soonto be demolished
Boston Gazette writer relates that the lat,
Professor Agassiz, once being engaged to lectur,
at Concord, went to this station with his wife
They arrived just before the time for the trai,
to leave: All of sudden he turned to mis- wife
and exclaimed. why, Louisa, / have lost MI
porte-monnaie!" WY, how could you be SO care
less" was the reply Mr. Murray, the station
} agent, saw the dilemma, and quietly remarked
You wish to go Concord2' Yes, sir but
have no money" Here are two tickets Aeas
siz remarked. My friend, shall lecture at Con
cord TO night, and snail have money and viii
pay you." The next day Aeassiz returned. He
left the train At North Cambridge. lighted hi
cigar and was starting homeward, when he sud
denly turned to his wife and said II must pa
: that gentleman which he did, saying, II hay